Re: Can someone explain this?
Re: Can someone explain this?
- Subject: Re: Can someone explain this?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:55:11 -0600
At 13:41 -0400 3/14/09, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Deivy Marck Petrescu
<email@hidden> wrote:
It is the same as saying that in AS
-3^2
--> 9.0
is a bug.
No, it's not. Yes, it's a precedence issue, since there is a parsing
conflict between "(start through end) of list" and "start through (end
of list)", and that sort of thing is to be expected. But the bug is
that the presence of "the" (which should be a no-op) changes the
resolution of that conflict!
So a better comparison would be if -3^2 was +9, but ---3^2 was -9.
<http://macnauchtan.com/pub/precedence.html>
That document is getting to the point where I need to revisit it. Has
AppleScript changed? I'm limited to OS neXt 10.3.9 because of my
SE/30 file server that I refuse to give up but over there AppleScript
returns (-9) when evaluating (-3^2) and has caused calculation errors
in my work. Excel does the same thing while perl and good old FORTRAN
get it the way I learned in algebra class a hundred or so years ago.
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